We produce custom springs and wireforms. We do not stock standard parts.
We produce custom springs and wireforms. We do not stock standard parts.
Conical Extension Springs are best suited for heavy duty or high cycle applications. The hooks can be designed for extended life as compared to standard extension springs of similar dimension. The hooks are also free to rotate to assure alignment. (Sometimes can be considered heavy duty extension springs)
Conical Extension Springs or Conical End Reduced Extension Springs are made by coiling two or three or possibly four coils gradually smaller in diameter and then forming the hook on the smallest reduced coil. The hook may be a regular hook, a crossover hook, or a half hook to suit the requirements. This method is the easiest way to reduce the hook stresses and retard breakage. The reason for longer life is that the bending moment is lessened, thereby reducing the stress and making the hook last longer.
Conical extension ends require a method of attachment to other parts in an assembly. A wide variety of ends are available for a conical extension spring including threaded insert, swivel hooks, twist loops, side loops, cross-center and extension hooks. The most common configurations can be made during the manufacture of conical extension springs.
Ace Wire Spring & Form provides a wide variety of custom and precision conical extension springs and heavy duty extension springs to meet your specifications and exceed your expectations.
Conical Compression springs are often specified where the large end is meant to work in a bore and the small end is meant to work over a rod. They offer the advantage of a reduced solid height compared to straight compression springs, especially when capable of “telescoping.”
Conical Springs are Cone shaped compression springs designed to provide a near constant spring rate and a solid height lower than a normal spring. Each spring features a variable pitch to achieve the constant spring rate and coils which nest during deflection to provide a solid height approximately equal to two wire diameters.
Some uses for conical springs are:
Small Solid Height: A Conical spring can be designed so that each active coil fits within the next coil, so the solid height can be equal to one or two thicknesses of wire. This is useful where the solid height is limited.
Variable Rate: These springs offer a constant, or uniform pitch, and have an increasing force rate instead of a constant force rate (regular compression springs). The larger coils gradually begin to bottom as a force is applied. A variable pitch can be designed to give a uniform rate if necessary.
Stability: Conical compression offers more lateral stability and less tendency to buckle than regular compression springs.
Vibration: Resonance and vibration is reduced because Conical Compression springs have a uniform pitch and an increasing natural period of vibration (instead of a constant) as each coil bottoms.
Titanium is one of the strongest metallic elements, having the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal. With its high strength-to-weight ratio, Titanium is as strong as some steels but is almost 50% lighter. With these characteristics, Titanium springs are one of the strongest and most weight-sensitive springs available. Not only are titanium springs exceptionally strong, but they are also corrosion-resistant. Titanium springs are used in many industries and in many applications, from motorbikes and race cars to aircraft.
The primary attributes that make titanium an attractive material include an excellent strength-to-weight ratio, providing weight savings attractive to the aerospace and petrochemical industries; corrosion resistance, particularly appealing to the aerospace, chemical, petrochemical, and architectural industries; and biological compatibility, of interest to the medical industry. The chemical industry is the largest user of titanium due to its excellent corrosion resistance, particularly in the presence of oxidizing acids. The aerospace industry is the next largest user, primarily due to its elevated (and cryogenic) temperature capabilities and weight savings due to its high strength and low density; with the increased use of polymeric graphite fiber reinforced composites on aircraft, the low coefficient of thermal expansion is also an important factor. The ballistic properties of titanium are also excellent on a density-normalized basis.
Ace Wire Spring can help with your hot wound spring needs. Hot wound springs usually are made of a spring material with a diameter of 1/2 inch diameter and above. Hot winding is a process used in manufacturing the spring by heating the steel, winding, and tempering to the required properties. The main difference between hot wound springs and other types of springs is that the material (usually steel or high carbon steel) is heated prior to the spring being made.
Ace Wire Spring & Form Company utilizes state of the art equipment to ensure the proper temperature and modulus is achieved in our spring production process. We can help you out with hot wound and cold wound springs depending upon your requirements and applications. We also have the technical experience to offer recommendations for not only the right manufacturing process but selecting the right material, design and specifications.
Compression springs are the most common type of hot wound springs, and are used in multiple items in multiple industries.
An engineering drawing is the best way to specify the wire form. Discussing your project early in the design stage of wire forms will often result in considerable cost savings and can sometimes facilitate manufacture on automatic machinery, as well as reduce tool costs.
These springs are a type of torque spring that has two coils separated by a space to minimize friction. These consist of a right-hand and a left-hand coil section connected together and working in parallel. The sections are designed separately with the total torque exerted being the sum of the two, thus called double torsion springs.
How a spring reacts to torque or rotational forces depends on how the spring is designed. The challenge is that the combination of formulas, wire sizes and shapes can provide an endless selection of torque springs to choose. This can be further complicated by evaluating stock or custom springs to best determine the application solution.
Ace Wire Spring & Form solves this problem by providing design assistance to our customers and assists them in designing the right spring for their specific application. With our manufacturing process and skilled craftsman, we can provide stock or custom springs in any quantity and still provide the fast turnaround time and consistent quality usually associated with only large production runs.
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